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ROTARY PLOW.

, (No Modeli) No. 54s,11e. Pate itedfiuly 231 895 WITNESES:

Emma. ATKINS, r IINDKANAPOLIS, INDIANA, AND ATE r1. Romans, 0r".

PASADENA, CALIFORN'EA.

my r m f0 all whom d2? maywrwem:

Be it known that we, Emu G. ATKINS. re-

- siding am'rrdianwofis, in the county of Marion gufl fiigam 0f Iaciiarza, rind NATE H. ROB- 1mm, residing at Pasadena, in the corrnty of 1308 Angebaa and State of California, eitizens she United States, hav invented certain a: varisty of rotary plows shown and dera I tr-m mum applimrtion o f Nam H. Rob arm, Serial No. 508,421, fi'lefi April 21, 189-1.

. Srmh .improvsmenm will be first any deseribad, mm than partieulmrly pointed out in the claims.

Referrimg t0 m9 rrccsmprnying: drawings, which am mafia as. part hewafi, and 0x1 which similar Matters aimferenes indcam similar parw, Figma 1 is; a tap orphan view, with the?) sear; remover ram 1m posii ianshormin (mm Rin s, of a rotary plow embodying our I said 'mvenciou; Fig. 2, a. side elevaizion of the same; Fig. 3, a detail top or plan View on a omawhat enlarged scale, the flowing-disk and scmperarm bearing :wfi support being shaman in aeetfian; Fig. wrrararpeative view af ha rwmpez mid racraper-mm separateiy; Fig. '5, a datail View @f the awmr-wheel at the rear 0-! the plow and its sonnectians; Fig. 6, a. rear airsmtimr 0f the; ame, mad Fig. I a. detail vim showing the: gartieular farm of the clevis at the rent and. i

As aim'm stanza, om inv'enticm is in many particulars similar to bat @hown in the appiemrorz. Serial No. 508,421, mien-ed to. W8 harm, imwwer, illustrated a piow for .very heavy work and pravidedwith a multipliciiy of warring-diam, which has neeeasitated the same rearrangemani; of parts and the providing of additional means to resist side draft.

In the drawings, tizu portions marked. A rapmmnt ma axle; B, the "main frame; (3, tbs plawing liskss; D, the land-wheel; E. the casiemwbesl; F zmfi G, stagger-e61 guide wheels; H; m rwp by which tha Increment of ihe guiris-whwl G is in a. meme contmlled; I, weedfiwoka, m1 3' mmpem fer the disks.

.. 2mm m. $43,118, rifle- July rwjwsr. mm mm a. ma. W m 521,013. rm a.

The axle; A. isof a usual and wefi-krr ria form and earriefi the spindies or aha wheels 1) ewfi F. The spindle for the wheel I) 5x or: an arm A', which is capable of being rumred mm '55 shaft, and the wheel thus posmib'ned higher or lower relatireiy to we remamder of Kim machine," and said arm i5 operated by'the usual lever and latch arrangement A". The

spindls for the wheel F ismopzim in the ver- $0 tically-sliding hearing A", and is alarmed or depressed by the usual lever and Late? mrangemem A. I

The main portion of the frame; 152% am shown in the mopficatiml, Serial E0. $,21,

consists of an E-beam beat 3% an angls. his .mounted in a cast'bolster orubhe axle A, which bolster is raw exwued ant and cm ries the lever H and is seemed in a 9; in said bolster by the balm 0.. Sam mam firs. provided with as many arms 13' B a them are plowing-disks. Four such arms are: shrawn in the drawings, arranged as We 53m g'iamneai for a Sarge plow with his number? plowing disks. 1?. wili' be obssrrrad that am of these arms B is largsr and of a ifim'em charsmmr from the arms 13*. The ame plow can be transformed into a, smslir plow by removing one or'tw of the arms B mgamer with ma plowing-disks carriad iheraby, and mevrrrg the arms B up in the ea'rraapmring iawrfwra,

thus reducing rhe aim 0? tbs p'iow 0 9. cm-

B may W atmchad. This is'illusuaw 3:2. Figs. 1 and Land by this armragemmsfia grgzmz. range 02 afijuarmerrfi oi the two dwiesg is provided 50;.

The plowing-disks U are} 01? aha 2,255 farm shown in previous patenrsamiappiiczrtisnr, Em:

patenm, and are mounted on thrazamrs B a.

B in 9. similar mamgerm tm'siadiemed in grid.

' weight-supportin g r ing provided with adjustable collars e? e alongside of said bearing, and a'b'ear-ing B on the frame B to which said bearing E is ad justably secured by bolts substantially as shown and described.

3. The combinati the-frame, and the gered guide Wheel in itself embodies on, in a rotary plow, with plowing' disks, of a stag- G, a bent shaft G which a vertical. pivot, a h0rizontal arm and an inclined spindle for the wheel,

and providcdat the point where it is bent with an angle block G? constituting a shoulder for the guidowheel, and the base for a pin, said weight-supporting pin and the weights thereon,subst antially as set forth;

4. The combination, in a rotary plow, with the frame and plowing disks, of a staggered guide wheel mounted on a swinging arm. which swinging arm has a vertical portion forminga pivot, a stop arm secured .to said vertical portion, a pivoted stop II secured to shown and described.

extending 4 the frame in front of said stop-arm, and a connecting rod II and a lever 11'' whereby said pivoted stop is operated, substantially as 5. The combination, in a rotary plow, with the plowing disks,- of weed books I secured to the frame and curved inwardly to approxi niately the contour of the inner surfaces oi the plowing disks until they reach a point nearly central the plowing disks, and bent thence outwardly across the line of travel of the plow, s scribed. v, i

6. The combination, in a rotary plow, with the plowing disks, of-weed books I secured to the frame in front of the plowing disks and transversely across in front of the sks and thence back along the inner ubstantially as shown and deplowingdi surface thereof a certain distance and outwardly across the line of travel of the-plow substantially as set forth.

,7. The combination, in a rotary plow, with the plowin disks, of scrapers 'J mounted on arms J 'i which said arms are secured to-th'e frame *ymeans of knuckle joints, whereby they may be adjusted in any direction desired, substantially as setforth.

.8. The combination, in a rotary plow, with the plowing disks, of scrapers J having stems j which are pivotally mounted in arms J, and said arms J which are adjustably secured to theplow' frame, substantially as set forth.

9. Tlie'combin'atiou, in a rotary plow, with the plowing disks, of the scrapers J, arms J therefor, projections b on the frame to which said arms are secured, bolts j by which said 'arms'are secured to saidprojections, ears on said arms extending above adjacent portions of the frame, and adjusting screwsj passing through said ears and adapted to bear on the surface ofsuch adjacent portions, substantially as set forth.

KINS, have hereon Indianapolis, Indiana, this 20th day of -November, A. D. 1894.

, ELIAS C. ATKINS. [L. 8.] Witnesses for Elias O.'Atkins: 1 ABRAM WAGNER, JAMES A. \vALSHr flERTS, have hereunto setmy hand and seal, at Pasadena, California, this 26th day of November, A. D1894. v

r Y NATF II. ROBER'LS. [L. s.]

\Vitnesses for Nate'II. Roberts:

JOHN MCD NALD,

C. U. BU' NNELL.

' In witness whereof I, the said ELIAS 0. AT-

to set my hand and seal, at r In witness'whereof I, the said NATE 1-]. R013- I 

